Event Detail
Emmylou Harris with Anais Mitchell
All Ages
Monday, August 6, 2007
Doors open at 5:00PM
Emmylou Harris is truly a modern innovator. For over 30 years, Emmylou
has flowed effortlessly between genres achieving popularity in pop,
folk, country and now alternative. The common bridge is an exquisite
vocal style and a gift for discovering the heart of a song.
Discovered in 1971 by Chris Hillman, Hillman brought Gram Parsons to
hear her sing in a small club in the Washington D.C. area. In 1972, she
answered the call from Gram to join him in Los Angeles to work on his
first solo album, "GP." After Gram died in 1973, Emmylou went back to
the D.C. area and formed a country band, playing with them until her
1975 major label debut, Pieces of the Sky, when she formed the first
version of the legendary Hot Band. Over the years the Hot Band included
world class players such as Albert Lee, Rodney Crowell and Hank DeVito.
Emmylou has been called by Billboard Magazine a "truly venturesome,
genre-transcending pathfinder." Throughout her career, she has been
admired for her talent as an artist and song connoisseur, but it was
with her 2000 album, Red Dirt Girl, for which Ms. Harris was awarded her
tenth (out of eleven total to date) Grammy, that she revealed she is
also a gifted songwriter. Continuing the trend with her September 2003
album, Stumble Into Grace, Emmylou wrote ten of the album's eleven
tracks. Though Emmylou is the most admired and influential woman in
contemporary country music, her scope extends far beyond it. She has
recorded with such diverse artists as Ryan Adams, Beck, Elvis Costello,
Johnny Cash, Lucinda Williams, Bob Dylan, Tammy Wynette, Neil Young, The
Chieftains, Lyle Lovett, Roy Orbison, The Band, Willie Nelson and George
Jones.